Improving security through data analysis and visualizations

Improving security through data analysis and visualizations

Five questions for Charles Givre on building effective security analytics programs.

I recently sat down with Charles Givre, Data Scientist currently, to discuss the characteristics of successful security analytics programs, principles for effective data visualizations, and how effective data visualizations can reduce response time. Here are some highlights from our talk.

Defenders are increasingly employing data analysis to help protect their organizations with varying levels of success. What characteristics define the organizations that have the most successful security analytics programs?

In my opinion, it isn’t enough for a company to simply have a security analytics program. This isn’t unique to security analytics, but the companies that truly maximize the benefit of any analytics program are the ones that have a culture of data literacy from top to bottom. You can have a killer analytics program, but if the C-Suite or other stakeholders don’t understand the analytics being presented to them, the resulting recommendations are not likely to be implemented or acted upon.

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